Matougues

Marne · CA de Châlons-en-Champagne · INSEE 51357

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 24.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Matougues (INSEE 51357) is in Marne (51), part of CA de Châlons-en-Champagne. Population 636 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/51357-matougues

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 16,802 communes of a similar size.

Compare this with communes of a similar size. The score measures how well a place is served relative to its own size band, and larger communes score higher as a rule — so it reads meaningfully against another village, and misleadingly against a town.

Measured but not scored in this model: Market. See the methodology for why.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.44	10	4.42
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 of 2

One square per service type, shaded by how many: none, one, a few, five or more. A blank square means none was counted — the sources do not distinguish “none here” from “not counted”.

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL DES MOISSONS). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (AUX CISEAUX DE MATOUGUES). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (AUBERGE DES MOISSONS). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE FOURNIL DES MOISSONS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	AUX CISEAUX DE MATOUGUES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	AUBERGE DES MOISSONS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 369 peak 1990: 675 2023: 636 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 673 (2012) → 636 (2023): -5.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 675 (1990) → 636 (2023): -5.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 275, of which 0.4 % second homes and 4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 3.1 km NEFood shop — 3.8 km NPharmacy — 6.5 km SE Straight-line, from the mairie, in the direction given. Services in the same town share a spoke. Distance is not travel time: a pass or an estuary can double it.

Bakery (Matougues): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Vraux): 3.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Juvigny): 3.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Fagnières): 6.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Matougues): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.8

Days at or below 0 °C 51.7

Muggy days a summer 1.7

Each track runs from the 5th to the 95th percentile of the 34,141 communes with that measurement; the tick is the median. A value beyond either end sits at the end and is marked ▸.

An average of 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the FAGNIERES-INRAE weather station, 7.7 km away at 105 m; the village itself is at 82 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at FAGNIERES-INRAE, 7.7 km away at 105 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 682 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at THIBIE, 7.3 km away at 97 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51357/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51357/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51357/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 51357/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 51357
INSEE BPE 2025 — 51656
INSEE BPE 2025 — 51312
INSEE BPE 2025 — 51242
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

Villages like this one

Matched on size, density, second homes and which everyday shops and services are present — not on the score, so a village of the same kind that is doing better or worse shows up rather than being hidden.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Surques	62	256 km NW	624	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Butten	67	217 km E	640	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Gunstett	67	257 km E	633	27.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Le Bocasse	76	239 km W	654	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Aurice	40	685 km SW	633	25.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %
Bussières	77	74 km W	600	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bussières	77	74 km W	600	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %
Butten	67	217 km E	640	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Le Bocasse	76	239 km W	654	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Surques	62	256 km NW	624	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Gunstett	67	257 km E	633	27.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Aurice	40	685 km SW	633	25.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %

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…and in much the same climate

The same match on size and services, narrowed to communes whose summers, winters and summer humidity are all close to Matougues's. All three are required, so this section is absent for the 11.8 % of communes with no humidity station near enough to measure: two temperature axes alone cannot tell a muggy coast from a dry one.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Butten	67	217 km E	640	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Hessenheim	67	258 km E	614	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Bergères-lès-Vertus	51	22 km SW	596	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Franvillers	80	166 km NW	558	26.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Hohengœft	67	239 km E	539	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Villemoyenne	10	91 km S	730	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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